Musk is stretched pretty thin these days—this chart shows who he relies on to help run SpaceX when he is busy with other ventures.
Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, Musk’s company, SpaceX, launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.
Satellite service Starlink doesn’t have the capabilities to be the FAA’s comms backbone. Trump officials may take a $2.4B contract from Verizon and give it to Musk’s company anyway.
Newsweek reached out for comment to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) via email on Thursday night.
One of the biggest victims of the tariff selloff, Tesla stock's post-election rally now stands at less than 5% after once enjoying a 90% gain.
The FAA is reportedly under DOGE pressure to pull a critical upgrade project away from Verizon in favor of Musk’s Starlink.
President Donald Trump said that he asked "a favor" of Elon Musk to retrieve astronauts on the ISS. The plan to bring them back has been in place since September.
Minutes after lift-off and booster separation, a video live feed showed the upper stage tumbling uncontrollably, with signal soon cutting out. “Can confirm we did lose contact with the ship. Unfortunately,
Designed to be the most powerful ever built, the Starship rocket was intended to conduct a suborbital flight, deploying four dummy Starlink satellites and testing reentry maneuvers.
Billionaire investor Elon Musk is strengthening his SpaceX’s ambitions with a massive investment of $1.8 billion in Florida, marking a